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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness. - Amos Bronson Alcott, Table-Talk--Sympathy Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood. - Sir Edwin Arnold, Light of Asia (bk. VI, l. 73) Terrorists intent on damaging the United States need not fly planes into America's buildings; they need only do something to raise the price of oil. - Ricardo Bayon, in The Atlantic, January/February, 2003 A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track,--but one inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity. - Henry Ward Beecher But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? - Bible, I John (ch. III, v. 17) But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is for our sympathies, for the manner in which we regard it, and for the tone in which we discuss it. What shall we say, then, with regard to it? On which side shall we stand? - John Bright, Speech on Slavery and Secession Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart. - Edmund Burke In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Stanzas to Augusta Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--Goethe's Works All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge There is in souls a sympathy with sounds. - William Cowper, Task (bk. VI, l. 1) Jobling, there are chords in the human mind. - Charles Dickens, Bleak House (ch. XX) Our souls sit close, and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. - John Dryden, Marriage a la Mode (act II, sc. 1) To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. - Tryon Edwards The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men--Montaigne The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen. - Euripides, Orestes (l. 846) The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy. - Parke Godwin He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (l. 166) The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow. - A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare, Guesses at Truth We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own. - Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans, Psyche Borne by Zephyrs to the Island of Pleasure Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. XVIII, l. 269), (Pope's translation) When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. - Edgar Watson Howe World-wide apart, and yet akin, As showing that the human heart Beats on forever as of old. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III, The Theologian's Tale, Interlude) For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. X, l. 357) To commiserate is sometimes more than to give; for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul. - William Mountford (1) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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